Weldemariam and Confortola prevail at Mayrhofen
Yesterday’s WMRA GP race 4 at Mayrhofen, the Harakiri, was run in glorious weather after two weeks of rain in the region. The warm sun saw some great racing with Antonella Confortola turning the tables on Euro Champ Lucija Krkoc…
In the men’s race Azarya Weldemariam ran a superb race to beat last weeks Grintovec winner Ahmet Arslan into second place. Arslan is in joint leadership in the GP overall series standings.
Men's winner Azarya Weldemariam from Eritrea
Exactly after 50 minutes and 0 seconds, Silver Medallist from the last World Mountain Running Championships, Azarya Weldemariam, from Eritrea, touched the tape at the finish-line after a really hard fight 23 seconds before the recently crowned five-time European Mountain Running Champion, Ahmet Arslan from Turkey.
In the women’s race Confortola took a very good win, ahead of Lucija Krkoc from Slovenia, who had won last week’s round 3 race in her home country.
The women's podium
At the womens race, we had the revenge oft he European Championships and again Antonella Confortola (1 hour 2 minutes and 50 seconds) was in front of Lucija Krkoc from Slovenja (1 hour 3 minutes and 32 seconds) and short before the German Master Lisa Reisinger (1 hour 3 minutes and 58 seconds).
There were some more great performances from British runners as Emma Clayton cemented her second place in the overall standings with 9th on the day, Lauren Jeska was 12th. In the men’s race Adam Osbourne had a another impressive run in 11th, barely 3 mins behind multiple world MR champ Jono Wyatt in 5th and ahead of recently crowned WLDMRC champ Mitja Kosovelj.
Full WMRA report here with full race results online at the Mayrhofen site here.
The Mayrhofen trophy!
